Vice President, Product Pricing Manager

Job Description

BPL Product Pricing Manager VP | Barclays

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Barclays, located in London or Northampton, UK. Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients. This role is vital for providing analytical insight and strategic oversight of pricing across Global Payment Acceptance, specifically focusing on proprietary gateway pricing and its transition onto Bankworks to ensure clarity, competitiveness, and efficiency. The manager will shape key pricing initiatives and guide the implementation of strategies to enhance customer lifetime value, improve retention, and attract new clients.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person – United Kingdom (England – East Midlands)

• Team: Part of the Global Payment Acceptance team
• Mission: Provide analytical insight and strategic oversight of pricing for Global Payment Acceptance, ensuring clarity, competitiveness, and efficiency.
• Tech Stack: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SQL, Business Objects, Access, SAS

What You’ll Actually Do
• Extract and analyze data: Identify and extract relevant data from various internal and external sources, then perform sensitivity analysis and scenario planning.
• Develop pricing models: Build and validate quantitative models to support decision-making, ensuring data quality through implemented control procedures.
• Guide pricing strategy: Support and shape key pricing initiatives, including large-scale repricing activities, and guide the implementation of pricing strategies.
• Optimize profitability: Identify opportunities to improve profitability and pricing effectiveness by leveraging data-driven insights and challenging assumptions.
• Advise stakeholders: Communicate pricing insights, recommend changes, and advise functional leadership and senior management on pricing impact and alignment.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a numerate discipline, combined with substantial experience in a commercial analytics environment focusing on pricing within a financial services or payments context.
• Experience: Proven ability to translate complex data analysis into clear, actionable business insights for commercial decision-making, along with demonstrated knowledge of business modeling, data interrogation, and statistical techniques relevant to pricing analysis.
• Skills: High proficiency in numeric, verbal, and logical reasoning; expert user of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; practical experience using data interrogation and manipulation tools such as SQL, Business Objects, Access, or SAS.
• Bonus: Financial services experience with an understanding of pricing, commercial dynamics, and regulatory considerations specific to the industry.